If you're using Audacity, open the file and click "Split Stereo Track" on the dropdown menu for that track. You should have two tracks now that you can switch to Mono in the same menu. You can play it from there or export it to a new file.

Just a bit of insight from across the pond regarding the Pope's visit. As you'll have seen, the UK's contribution has already risen to £20m, as well as the £7m from the Vatican, £1.1m of which was actually risen through special collections made in Catholic Churches in the UK. That is still not including the policing costs. Based on similar events in the past, the NSS estimates it will cost around £100m, most of which will come from local police budgets, without any extra funding from central government. These police forces are already facing huge budget cuts because the new coalition government here is intent on screwing around with public services.

Now the reason the cost is being split between the government and the Vatican (normally the government would fund it entirely) is because the main reason for the visit is to beatify Cardinal Newman. I believe this was originally going to take place in Coventry Airport but the location has changed because it'll cost too much. I'm starting to ask myself how the UK will benefit from this visit at all! It seems that we're actually going to be losing quite a lot, because besides the costs, the Pope is also expected to slag off our equality legislation! We really don't care what he thinks and we're not going to be exporting much to the Vatican, so what benefits are there at all?

A little pedantry: "octopi" is a fake Latinism. Octopus has Greek roots (as is platypus), so "octopodes" would be better, but since Greek plurals aren't really productive in English, you might as well just say "octopuses".

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